Father can be an enemy to the country

In the southwest, especially in Yunnan, people call the local plains between the mountains Bazi.

The Chief Secretary of Yunnan has more than a thousand dams, the largest and richest of which is the Kunming dam. It has flat terrain, mild climate, fertile soil, and convenient irrigation. It is the most developed agricultural, most densely populated, and most economically prosperous golden region in Yunnan.

In September of that year, the vast hectares of fertile farmland beside Dianchi Lake had almost been harvested. Farmers of all ethnic groups were busy drying and threshing grains on Bazi, hoping to return the grains to their warehouses as soon as possible.

The Chief Secretary and the Chief Secretary of Yunnan also attach great importance to this batch of grain. It has been exactly one year since the army set out for the expedition. There are 250,000 troops plus civilians, and nearly 400,000 people are on horseback. If they all rely on transportation from the interior, the pressure on the court will be too great.

Therefore, the emperor requested that Yunnan should provide at least half of its rations locally. The military and political parties calculated that with the court's supply cut in half, Yunnan's original grain reserves could last until September. We will have to find another way in the future.

Because the officials and chieftains of the residual Yuan Dynasty surrendered too quickly, there was no way to defeat the enemy because of food, and they could only grow their own food in a down-to-earth manner. Therefore, from the beginning of spring, the chief envoy Pan Yuanming went all out to restore agricultural production. In addition to encouraging people of all ethnic groups to increase their efforts in reclaiming wasteland and farming, he also sent hundreds of thousands of civilians and the old, weak, sick and disabled in the army to the city. , cultivating the mature fields left by the Mongols.

During the off-season, Pan Yuanming also led people to build water conservancy projects and dig trenches and canals to resist drought and floods. It can be said that he worked hard and tried his best. Fortunately, God has not let down the hard-working people, and a bumper harvest is the best reward.

Now it only takes a few days to put all the food into the warehouse, and the court's mission will be completed. At this last moment, no one wanted to make mistakes. The Chief Secretary sent all the officials to the countryside to supervise the grain collection, and the General Secretary also sent troops to patrol around to prevent anyone from taking the opportunity to cause trouble.

Yu Min is in one of the patrol teams.

After his "smoke miasma" was cured, he was discharged from the hospital and returned to his hometown. As soon as he returned to the team, he got good news and bad news.

The good news is that he has been promoted to a small flag officer and is no longer a top soldier. The bad news is that all the soldiers who fought in Yunnan were promoted to small flag officers, so he didn't have any soldiers under his command, so he still had to do the work of the big soldiers.

But the days after that were quite pleasant. First, after being promoted to Xiaoqi officer, Shangfeng's attitude towards him was finally a little better. He no longer treats him like a new recruit like before. Although it was fun to play the new recruit, the one being played was unhappy, so Yu Min welcomed this change.

In addition, the Qianhu Station where they were located had been the vanguard in every previous battle, making the most contributions and suffering the most losses. Therefore, we do not have any overseas combat missions this year and have been stationed in Kunming, waiting for the arrival of supplementary troops from the mainland.

Kunming is such a good place. When winter came last year, it was as warm as spring. This summer, when Nanjing should be turning into a furnace, it will still be as warm as spring. There seems to be no alternation of seasons here, with warm spring all year round.

While on patrol, Yu Min looked at the beautiful scenery of the dam with beautiful mountains, clear waters, and bright sunshine, and often had the illusion of being in paradise. He heard from Deputy Zhang Qianhu that most of them would settle down in Yunnan. Many people became anxious after hearing this, crying and shouting to go home.

But Yu Min thought it would be good to stay. If the miasma hadn't been so severe, he would have wanted to take my mother here.

But the miasma in Yunnan was so severe that despite the full efforts of His Royal Highness King Zhou’s Epidemic Prevention Department, a large number of soldiers fell down after April and May. Especially those troops that are deployed abroad may even experience more than half of their non-combat attrition, and have to abandon their missions and withdraw to Kunming as a whole for rest and recuperation.

Fortunately, His Royal Highness the King of Zhou had superb medical skills and could cure the disease with basic medicines, so not too many people died. However, the generals still had lingering fears and gave up all summer combat missions, leaving their troops in the city to concentrate on preventing miasma.

This makes the local people take it for granted that the Ming army will repeat the same mistakes as the Yuan army, and 70% to 80% of its troops will be killed by miasma...

Those chieftains who had been rushing to surrender at the beginning of the year were now killing officials and rebelling, preparing to show the court how powerful they were.

It wasn't until the weather turned cold last month that the army was mobilized again to suppress the chieftains who took the opportunity to cause trouble in various parts of the province.

So after careful consideration, Yu Min decided not to bring my mother over, but to go home as long as there was a chance. This poor place in Yunnan is really unsafe, and such a good climate is wasted...

While he was thinking wildly, he suddenly heard the rapid sound of horse hooves in the distance. I quickly followed the sound and saw three scarred cavalry running down the official road. Two of them must have been seriously injured and were already lying on their horses.

Niu Fu Baihu hurriedly asked people to shout and ask about the origin of the three cavalry.

The leading cavalry also saw the patrol and quickly pulled the reins to stop the horse.

"Hush!"

The two horses behind also stopped. Niu Fubaihu hurriedly asked people to come forward and helped the two injured cavalry off the horse. He walked to the leading cavalry and saw that his face was covered with dust and his lips were chapped. , handed the water bag over.

The cavalryman took the water bag and took a gulp of it. Only then did he have the strength to speak. What he said was earth-shattering: "Forty-eight barbarians rebelled in the Songmeng League. They are heading towards Kunming with an army of 200,000 people!"

"Ah?" Niu Fubaihu was startled and blurted out, "Is it true or not?"

The cavalryman glanced at him and took out two waist badges from his arms.

"This is the waist badge of our Tang Baihu. All the brothers of our Baihu and the officials of the state government have died heroically..." The cavalryman took the waist badge engraved with the words 'Songmeng Prefecture Garrison Baihu', Show it to Niu Fubaihu.

Then he handed him another Xiaoqi waist badge and said with a strong cry: "This is Feng Xiaoqi who led us to report the news. He and other brothers also died on the way to break out, leaving only the three of us... "

"Brother, don't say anything. I will take you to Dusi Yamen!" Deputy Niu Baihu exhaled, and immediately ordered someone to lead the patrol's only war horse. While getting on the horse, he ordered Wang Zongqi to lead the team immediately. Return to the city and send the two wounded to the military hospital.

He himself took the cavalryman and galloped away...

The soldiers looked at Niu Fubaihu's back and couldn't help but whisper.

"Looks like there's going to be a war."

"It's a good thing. How can we achieve meritorious service without fighting?"

"I didn't expect that we would still be fighting if we stayed behind."

Yu Min listened to the discussion of his colleagues and looked at the mountains in the distance. It was hard to imagine where the 200,000 troops that the scouts mentioned came from.

But he made one thing clear, that is, this poor place in Yunnan is indeed not for humans...

It wasn't until Wang Zongqi scolded him: "Why are you still standing there, quickly make two stretchers and carry the person back!" that his soul was called back.

Yu Min quickly helped tie up the stretcher, and took turns carrying the two wounded people with her colleagues, and ran back to Kunming City.